Piaget
Black-Tie, Reference 9902 | A white gold and onyx bracelet watch with mother-of-pearl dial | Circa 1980
Auction Closed
April 3, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
Dial: mother of pearl
Calibre: cal. 9P1 manual winding, 18 jewels
Movement number: 740'353
Case: 18k white gold, case back secured by 4 screws
Case number: 238'716, 563
Closure: 18k white gold and onyx unsigned bracelet
Size: 23 mm diameter, bracelet circumference approximately 155 mm
Signed: case, dial and movement
Box: no
Papers: no
Accessories: none
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Piaget – The Orbital Timecraft
Imagine a satellite unfurling its solar panels, reaching for the light of distant stars—this Piaget feels like it was designed with that very vision in mind. Crafted entirely from 18k white gold, its structure is both delicate and formidable, an extraterrestrial marvel engineered for the wrist. Each onyx link moves with precision, articulating around a luminous mother-of-pearl dial, as if adjusting to the gravitational pull of an unseen celestial body.
A rarity in this dimension, this white-gold and onyx-link bracelet watch exists at the crossroads of elegance and aerospace engineering. The case, sculpted like a satellite in silent orbit, hovers weightlessly on the wrist, while the mother-of-pearl dial shimmers like a frozen lake on an exoplanet, untouched and eternal.
Beneath its extraterrestrial shell, the ultra-thin Piaget 9P1 caliber powers the watch with the kind of refinement only Piaget can achieve—delicate yet precise, like the unseen forces that guide celestial bodies through the void.